Blueberry Lemon Muffins

Refined-Sugar Free, Easy and Delicious Muffins

This easy blueberry lemon muffin recipe is so delicious it just may become a springtime staple in your house!

For the first time, maybe ever, I am really enjoying spring. When you hear spring you typically think new life, green grass, baby animals, birds chirping; but growing up in Michigan it was anything but. In Michigan spring was pretty much just melted slushy snow and ALOT of mud. Yuck.

Then, living in Florida for the last 10 years with year round warmth and sunshine, spring and summer kinda came and went without me even noticing. It was easy to forget what time of year it was when the temperature fluctuates from hot to hotter.

This year Nick and I had a real winter on the farm- complete with a snow day!

I must admit, I enjoyed it WAY more than I ever thought I would. I think the thing that made the biggest difference is that the sun still shined *almost* every single day. Compare that with the months of grey in Michigan and its a BIG upgrade.

Despite enjoying the cool days filled with evenings nestled up with a cup of tea by the fireplace in our farmhouse I feel an overwhelming joy at the first glimpses of spring.

Summer Time Livin’

Driving along country roads with daffodils blooming, sitting on the porch listening to birds chirping, the apple trees lining our drive way beginning to blossom it is undeniable- summer is here.

Now I may be jumping the gun on this but this warm weather has got me craving lightness. Both in shedding the sweaters, packing away the beanie and in bringing the lighter foods into our home. I am ready for fresh salads from the garden and berries to be an everyday staple.

We don’t quite have our blueberry bushes ready to go when I went into our grocery store and saw how delicious the blueberries looked I knew I had to make something with them.

Enter the Blueberry Lemon Muffins

I love a good muffin but unfortunately most muffins are filled with processed sugar. I have really been making an effort to find alternatives. I’m not saying I never use sugar (although when I do I use organic raw cane sugar because it makes me feel better about it)

However these muffins require NO PROCESSED SUGAR!

✔️No Refined Sugar ✔️Easy ✔️Delicious

Does it get any better than that? The answer is no, no it does not.

Ingredients

1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
zest of 1 lemon
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup maple syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg, room temperature
2 cups of all-purpose flour, spooned and leveled
1 1/2 teaspoons salt, omit if using salted butter
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 cups frest blueberries
1/2 cup milk

Necessary Tools

• Muffin Tin
• Measuring Cups and Spoons
• Bowl
• Spoon to mix

Nice To Have Tools

• Natural, unbleached muffin liners
• Stand Mixer I was one of those people who always thought having a KitchenAid was unnecessary. While I guess it technically is, once I got one I understand the hype. Well worth the investment IMO

Step One

Preheat oven to 375* F

Step Two

Mix butter, lemon zest, honey and maple syrup thoroughly

Step Three

Add egg and vanilla, mix well

Step Four

Toss Blueberries with 1/4 cup flour. This helps you to not get one giant blueberry clump in your muffins so that you can easily mix them.

Step Five

In separate bowl mix remaining 1 3/4 cup flour, baking powder and salt

Step Six

Add dry ingredient to wet ingredients a little at a time while also adding the milk. Adding the dry to the wet helps to prevent little pockets of dry ingredients as you are mixing.

Step Seven

Fold in blueberries

Step Eight

Grease muffin tin or add liners to pan and distribute evenly

Bake for 30 minutes or until toothpick shows no batter Cool for 10 minutes before serving

It’s that easy! I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as we do!